X-Men: Days of Future Past, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender,  Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage, Shawn Ashmore, Omar Sy, Daniel Cudmore, Evan Peters, Fan Bingbing, Josh Helman, Ellen Page,  Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer, Adan Canto, Booboo Stewart, Lucas Till, Evan Jonigkeit, Gregg Lowe, Mark Camacho, James Marsden, Famke Janssen.

Fading Gigolo, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T., Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Review 7/10

Cast: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, Vanessa Paradis, Lieb Schreiber, Max Casella, Aida Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Aurélie Claudel, Loan Chabanol.

Fading Gigolo he maybe in a film but there is nothing faded, jaded or withered about John Turturro as a writer or as a film maker.

When Fioravante, John Turturro, helps purveyor of old and rare books Murray, Woody Allen, help finally close his shop due to the economic times we live in, it sets of a chain of events that sees the two impoverished men turn the tide slightly back in their favour by the under-discussed subject of prostitution for rich female clients.

Spygenius, The Comforting Suture. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Although Spygenius’ album The Comforting Suture came out in 2012, to find it amongst the spread out and slightly eclectic offerings on a long table, could be seen as serendipity, a moment of providence in which to take full advantage of and delve into at the very earliest convenience.

Kontiki Suite, On Sunset Lake. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The still waters of a lake a deceptively deep, they can pull you in with their obvious translucent charm and give you hours of pleasure as you take a sort of sanctuary in the coolness on offer. Not all lakes or lochs are like this, others contain worded dangers, the keep out sign easily seen from the water’s edge and to even dip your toe in the blackness that thrives in the foam could be a hazard the lyrically unstable could be keen on missing out on.

Doctor Chris Williams And Actor Owen Teale Bring Under Milk Wood To Life At Waterstones.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Time passes…Sitting back in a chair inside Waterstones on a Tuesday afternoon and listening to an expert from the University of Liverpool and one of the finest Welsh actors talk of Dylan Thomas’ seminal Under Milk Wood, it is possible to contemplate on what the townsfolk of Llareggub may have thought of all the adulation being bestowed upon a man who created them in this the 100th anniversary of the poet, writer, thinker and pondering wordsmith’s birth.

Ian Siegal, Man & Guitar. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If Ian Siegal doesn’t know how he does it then what hope is there for the rest of us? Then to be fair, as long as Ian Siegal can do it then all we have to do is sit back and enjoy the gravel toned singing Bluesman as he continues to thrill fans and live audiences.

Sex And The Suburbs, Theatre Review. Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Claire Sweeney, Lindzi Germain, Carl Patrick.

Radio has come a long way since its early days. It has seen many advancements, dedicated music channels, digital, analogue being banished to the wasteland of history but still lingering on coughing and spluttering in a superhuman effort to keep a vessel of the past open. Pop stars come and go and in some cases come back again and of course the advent of talk radio, the small bubble in which people can lose their rag at a voice a hundred miles away and confess all to an aural-voyeuristic nation. It seems nothing is off limits and when it comes to Sex and the Suburbs, everybody has a story to tell and an opinion to express.

Sin City: Family Values. Graphic Novel Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

One of the most overwhelming features of the Sin City series is that of family. In a neo-noir world in which you would expect a dystopian vision to be lurking on every black and white panel drawn and scripted by Frank Miller, the surprising comfort afforded to the reader is that of the tight unit in which many of the characters are drawn into.

F.O.X. Chimera. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are many times that you can listen to a new band and think if only you had been around a few years earlier, you would have been massive.  Regardless of what you think of the groups, musicians, boy bands, girl singers, the sometimes baffling and occasionally downright insulting that has graced the British pop charts since 1988, at times you find a nugget so good that you can but hold it close and hope they do well.

California Breed, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Where do you go when for the last few years you have had just the most incredible success and plaudits falling over themselves to place the band you are in as one of the most of the important of the first past of the 21st Century? Probably the only sane answer would be to tear it all down and rebuild again and that is exactly what Glenn Hughes and Jason Bonham have done with their new music offering California Breed and their debut self-titled album.